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Karen Barkstrom
The Daily World
Editorial assistant

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Obituary tips: Best to write your own one now

This month marks the four year anniversary of me processing obituaries for publication in The Daily World.

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Aberdeen’s budget season for 2025 is happening now

Tara Dunford, financial consultant for the city of Aberdeen, gave a presentation Wednesday night at the Aberdeen City…

Rob Gillis

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Rob Gillis joins Hoquiam City Council, to serve Ward Four

A little more than a month after Hoquiam City Council declared a vacancy for one of the city’s…

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A Grays Harbor PUD line crew works to replace an old pole.

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Keeping the lights on: looking at the PUD’s line crews

It’s a difficult, intensive and necessary profession

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Hoquiam City Council approves $873,378 bid for pump station

Anticipating it would happen, Hoquiam City Administrator Brian Shay was right. The Hoquiam City Council accepted a bid…

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City of Hoquiam to purchase more than 22 acres for $480,750

The city of Hoquiam agreed on Monday night to purchase a little more than 22 acres along the…

Firefighters from Oakville and Elma battled a barn fire on Monday evening. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World)

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Fire tears through Oakville barn

The cause is unclear

The Voice
Ben Fagerstedt, right, performs a duet Monday night with Michael Bublé on The Voice.

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Aberdeen’s own Ben Fagerstedt performs on The Voice

National stardom washed over Aberdeen’s Ben Fagerstedt as he was one of the featured singers Monday night for…

Museum of the North Beach photos
Volunteers paint the Museum of the North Beach’s 1912 Northern Pacific Railway caboose.

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Volunteers paint the Museum of the North Beach 1912 caboose

After several weather delays, volunteers with the Museum of the North Beach had the perfect day for painting…

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E.L. Hurn, who has reached out to various organizations in town, is waiting on housing to come through. He spoke a little about the unhoused issues within the city, including the question where the people who were cleared out of the River and State Street encampment have gone.

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Looking into where a large number of Aberdeen’s unhoused have gone

Once the Grants Pass, Oregon decision came down from the U.S. Supreme Court, it gave cities the power…

Aberdeen police are seeking information on a 15-year-old girl last seen on Sunday. (Courtesy photo / APD)

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Police seek information on missing teen

She was last seen on Sunday

Damage from a crash involving a former mayor of Aberdeen is apparent on a parked car. (Courtesy photo / Josh Conway)

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Former Aberdeen mayor arrested after crash

He struck a parked car, leading to his arrest

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A woman was arrested Monday attempting to smuggle contraband into Stafford Creek Correctional Center.

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Woman arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison

A 35-year-old Everett woman was arrested on Monday after attempting to smuggle contraband believed to be Suboxone into…